Buchanan v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• firearms in zippered bag behind driver’s seat were sufficiently available and accessible to support conviction even though they were not loaded
• describing Delaware’s statutory prohibition on such transport as “odd”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gallman v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-03-03· cited 8×
• Buchanan v. Johnson
  D. Delaware· 2010-07-15· cited 6×
• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-08-13· cited 2×
• Buchanan v. Johnson
  D. Delaware· 2010-09-27· cited 1×
• Buchanan v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-12-12
• Grooms v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2020-05-05
• State v. Brown
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2020-08-31
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-06-24
• State v. George
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2025-07-25

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Lewis
  New York Court of Appeals· 2005-11-21· cited 335×
• State v. Colvin
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2002-06-13· cited 64×
• Chance v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-11-08· cited 43×
• Poteat v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-12-17· cited 28×
• Patrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-03-15· cited 25×
• State v. Stinton
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2004-05-04· cited 23×
• Alexander v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-10-10· cited 21×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-09-14· cited 20×
• People v. VanDeWalle
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2007-12-21· cited 11×
• Dubin v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1979-01-04· cited 10×
• Burton v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-05-15· cited 5×
• People v. Carpio
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2007-04-26· cited 4×
• State v. Robinson
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1995-03-31· cited 2×
• Boswink v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-05-13· cited 2×